Oh Jihyun
Department of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, United States.
Child Youth Serv Rev. 2023 May;148. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.106890. Epub 2023 Feb 21.
Despite the growing importance of the multidimensional methods of assessing child poverty, few studies in the U.S. have applied a rights-based approach to examining child deprivation. This study examines multidimensional child deprivation using eight dimensions and twelve indicators based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Using a sample of children at age nine from the fifth wave of the Future of Families and Child Well-being Study, this study applied the multiple overlapping deprivation analysis (MODA), a comprehensive analytic method to assess the multidimensionality of child deprivation and to provide a detailed picture of material and social forms of deprivation among the U.S. children. This study found that the overall child deprivation rate was 8.89%; environmental safety (20.36%), information (15.94%), and housing security (14.23%) dimensions contributed the highest to the overall child deprivation; the overlap between deprivation and income poverty was 12.83%. Results suggest that understanding multifaceted and interrelated contexts of child deprivation is crucial to promote child rights.
尽管评估儿童贫困的多维方法日益重要，但美国很少有研究采用基于权利的方法来审视儿童贫困问题。本研究基于《儿童权利公约》（CRC），使用八个维度和十二个指标来考察多维儿童贫困。本研究以家庭与儿童福祉未来研究第五波中的九岁儿童为样本，应用了多重重叠剥夺分析（MODA），这是一种全面的分析方法，用于评估儿童贫困的多维性，并详细呈现美国儿童物质和社会形式的贫困状况。本研究发现，儿童总体贫困率为8.89%；环境安全（20.36%）、信息（15.94%）和住房保障（14.23%）维度对总体儿童贫困的贡献率最高；贫困与收入贫困之间的重叠率为12.83%。结果表明，了解儿童贫困的多方面和相互关联的背景对于促进儿童权利至关重要。
